Letting you go

 Favorite moment of the day(2009):  enjoying time with my kids.

I've said it before but this life is only temporary.  I enjoy spending time with my kids while we are all together, here on this earth.  I have enjoyed watching them grow up.  A painting I created recently has a personal quote that I told my students one time in class.  "I'm letting you go so you can grow."  As we spend time with my children, it's hard to let go.  It's hard to let them fall when they are learning to walk, but that's how they learn to get back up and keep trying.  Letting go of that bicycle seat so they can ride down the street all on their own, without training wheels, is scary but the reward is a big smile of accomplishment.  I don't like making lists of friends and family to send graduation invitations in a few months but I am confident that I have done the best I could and that he has grown because I have let him go.   God let His only son go to live an earthly life, growing along the way into a man who showed love and compassion to the least likely.  God let His only son go to die on a cross so that an entire world could grow from His teachings, His passion, and His truth.  Even as an adult, I still find myself letting things go - worry, doubt, fear - which results in spiritual growth.